edit: as long as it's plain dihydrocodeine that is, and doesn't contain paracetamol.

Cosign. Besides, you should be doing a cold-water extraction to remove all that paracetamol when you take opiates, anyway. The stuff is toxic, especially in the amounts they add to most pain meds. Makes it more pleasant and safer if you need to take more for really bad pain.

I just had knee surgery and more than 1500 mg of paracetamol makes me puke, so extracting the vicodin is absolutely essential if I'm to do all my knee exercises.